As any regularly visiting member of the Lussumo Community will tell you, this has been a very long time coming. When the beta version of Vanilla was released over a year ago, the web community latched onto it with completely unanticipated vigour. Vanilla definitely broke some ground, but needed polishing very badly. Thanks to the vigilant and practically relentless efforts of both the fans of Vanilla and the developers in the community, we've been able to make Vanilla what it has become today.

By far the biggest improvement in Vanilla is actually the Framework underneath it that drives the application. Now called the "Lussumo Framework", these core libraries have been written and rewritten with two things in mind: extensibility and speed. We've managed to make the framework completely extensible, allowing developers to make Vanilla do just about anything. When it comes to speed, not only have there been significant improvements in page delivery times, but extensions are now way faster to develop thanks to the cleaned up page controls and the brand new introduction of delegation.

When you visit getvanilla.com you will find a much more information driven website than the previous incarnation of the site. I've even gone through the nightmare of recording screencast presentations of various parts of the application. So go take a look and see what you think - you might even find out something you didn't know about Vanilla before.

You may be wondering why I chose a Saturday, July 1st to launch the new Vanilla. Truth be told I was ready to launch it last Monday the 26th of June, but I couldn't resist waiting until today: Canada Day.

Happy Canada Day!

Finally, I must thank the amazing group of people at The Lussumo Community. Your positive attitudes, friendly natures, support, and tireless efforts make this whole thing worthwhile. I'm grateful and proud to call you my friends.

For more information about Vanilla 1
Visit getvanilla.com
Read the *complete* documentation
Get involved at the Lussumo Community